It’s typical if tasteless fare for r/jailbait, which skirts legal trouble by not allowing nude photos.

When the redditor revealed he also possessed nude photos of the girl, more than 30 redditors implored TheContortionist to send the photographs to them via personal message. (It is impossible to attach files via Reddit messages, so if any material was exchanged, the files in question would never have been posted on Reddit proper.)

At least one of the section’s moderators, I_RAPE_PEOPLE, claimed he’d quickly cooperated with Reddit staff.

According to him, staff members confirmed that child pornography had been exchanged, and “were dealing with it.”

By 8 PM Eastern time, what was once a wall of images of underage girls had been replaced with a single sentence:

“This subreddit has been shut down due to threatening the structural integrity of the greater reddit community.”

The page linked to this recent official blog post, where Reddit’s admins detailed the rights and responsibilities of the sites admins, users, and moderators (the all volunteer workforce that keeps Reddit working).

But hours after r/jailbait was banned the section was still accessible on mobile devices and apps, leading many to speculate it was all a ruse. The section’s creator, violentacrez, adamantly denied these charges.